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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: Rixter on February 26, 2010, 09:06:45 AM
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In an earlier post; Dell refuses to start after battery replacement. I removed one of the dell's hard disks and put it in my siemens/hitachi.starts up fine but doesn't show that there's another hard disk. Should i remove/move those whiter plastic 'bridges' to different pins to make it slave /master?
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It should be jumpered as slave if it is a secondary drive...
Cabling:
MB===================================Master=========Slave.
Also...double check your primary drive...some need to be jumpered master/w slave when a 2nd drive is added...
PS. You shouldn't try to boot to the 2nd drive since it came from another machine if you have a version of Windows newer than WinME.
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Thank you for your time patio..the problem is that there are /is label on back of hard disk with symbols that i know not much about. It's international i guess but i am in sweden.So you write that it should look like you wrote: MB master...slave Is that where I put the little white plugs? please forgive my ignorance.I appreciate very much your help
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No...that is how the cable is setup inside the machine...
motherboard============================master drive======then slave drive...
Here is a picture of a common jumper setting:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/patio/CHope/jumpers.gif)
Keep in mind all drives are not setup the same way...
Check the manuf. site for more info for each drive.
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This is a wide grey ribbon cable connecting the drives ...correct ? ?
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Yes, Patio..Thank you very, very much for all the time that you took to help me. All is fine now. You are best!
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